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Man and the Computer by John G. Kemeny (1972 book by the co-creator of BASIC)

A look back at the 1972 book 'Man and the Computer' by John G. Kemeny, co-creator of BASIC.

AI/ML TechCrunch

Mark Zuckerberg predicts that billions of people will have personal AI agents in five years

Mark Zuckerberg forecasts a future where billions of people utilize personal AI agents within the next five years.

Tech Business/VC TechCrunch

Microsoft logs $3.2B from Anthropic investment, but OpenAI was a mixed bag

Microsoft reports financial gains from its investment in Anthropic while noting mixed results from OpenAI.

Tech Business/VC TechCrunch

Zuckerberg says Meta’s enterprise AI opportunity extends beyond agents

Mark Zuckerberg outlines Meta's strategy for enterprise AI, focusing on agents, APIs, and internal software.

AI/ML The Verge

Microsoft confirms Copilot ‘super app’ coming this year

Microsoft announces an upcoming AI 'super app' integrating chat, coding, and agentic capabilities into Copilot.

Cybersecurity Ars Technica

Mythos attack on 3rd-round PQC algorithm candidate puts it out of commission

The 'Mythos' attack has successfully compromised a third-round Post-Quantum Cryptography (PQC) algorithm candidate, HAWK.

Tech Business/VC Ars Technica

Musk went to “war,” sought jail time for X ad boycotts—but case ends with a whimper

Legal disputes between Elon Musk and advertisers regarding X ad boycotts conclude with a relationship reset.

Software Engineering Hacker News

Staging patches with Git add -p

A discussion regarding the utility of 'git add -p' for staging specific hunks of changes in Git.

Tech Business/VC The Verge

Mark Zuckerberg is planning a big push into personal AI agents

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg outlines a vision for personal AI agents capable of performing tasks on behalf of users across various life domains.

Hardware/Chips The Verge

Qualcomm is raising phone chip prices starting September 1st

Qualcomm is increasing prices for its phone processors starting September 1st, following a drop in handset business revenue.

AI/ML arXiv cs.AI

Seen, Said, or Forgotten? A Causal Audit of Visual KV Memory Across Dialog Turns

Researchers introduce the Causal Visual Memory Audit (CVMA) to analyze when visual facts are safely forgotten in multimodal assistants during dialog turns.

Cybersecurity arXiv cs.AI

Architectural Backdoors in Vision-Language Model Supply Chains via Representation Steering

A study demonstrates that malicious providers can embed architectural backdoors into Vision-Language Models (VLMs) via representation steering without poisoning training data.

AI/ML arXiv cs.AI

Automated Numerical Stability Analysis of Deep Learning Operators

Introduction of a unified software tool integrating CESTAC to detect and monitor numerical stability in deep learning operators.

AI/ML arXiv cs.AI

Beyond Counts: A Distributional Robustness Margin For Pathology Foundation Models

The Cross-confounder Robustness Margin (CRoMa) is proposed as a sample-resolved measure to assess distributional robustness in pathology foundation models.

Hardware/Chips arXiv cs.AI

At-the-Roofline Sparse Tensor Contractions on Vector Processors for Transformer Inference

Ventaglio is presented as a runtime-configurable sparse execution unit with RVV ISA extensions to accelerate sparse tensor contractions for Transformer inference.

Cybersecurity arXiv cs.AI

I2VShield: An Efficient Proactive Defense Framework against DiT-based Image-to-Video Models

I2VShield is a proactive defense framework against DiT-based image-to-video models using generative adversarial attacks to protect privacy.

AI/ML arXiv cs.AI

ReLATE: Reliability-Guided Evidence Fusion for Robust UAV--Satellite cross-view Geo-Localization

ReLATE is a reliable evidence learning framework for robust UAV-satellite cross-view geo-localization, accompanied by the UAVSat-Deg benchmark.

AI/ML Hacker News

AI's top startups are barely publishing their research

A discussion regarding the trend of top AI startups reducing the publication of their research, moving away from the open science culture of the past.

Tech Business/VC TechCrunch

Discover what’s next for AI, from the SaaS reckoning to the agent security gap, at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 

Announcement for the AI stage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026, focusing on SaaS and AI agent security.

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